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Digital behavior change interventions (DBCIs) (e.g., smartphone apps) represent a flexible, effective and scalable way to enable health-related behavior change. The application of DBCIs range from supporting medication adherence to reducing alcohol consumption, promoting smoking cessation, and improving physical activity and dietary behavior. This seminar will address two primary - and interconnected - aspects of DBCIs: the development and evaluation process.
- The development process aims to implement the actual content of the DBCI (e.g., the features of a smartphone app, the modules of a website). This process requires a comprehensive understanding of behavior change theories, human-centered design approaches and principles of information and communication technologies. Students will be introduced to the most commonly adopted methods and frameworks in the field of digital health.
- The evaluation phase aims to test which intervention or intervention component(s) is effective when it comes to promoting behavior change. Students will be introduced to key experimental study designs (e.g., factorial trials, micro-randomised trials) and emphasis will be placed on their technical implementation and the corresponding analytical methods to assess the effectiveness of DBCIs and their components.
During the course of the seminar, students will have to provide two deliverables as the result of group activities: (1) at the end of the first half, students will be asked to provide a report about the theoretical and methodological conceptualization of a DBCI targeting a health-related behavior, and (2) by the end of the seminar, students will be asked to deliver a presentation about how they have implemented the same DBCI into an actual smartphone app and planned out the evaluation of the app. The implementation of the DBCI will be facilitated by “Self-Help”, an easy-to-use tool for intervention development powered by the Technology Platform of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Bern.
Literature:
• Hankonen, N., & Hardeman, W. (2020). Developing Behavior Change Interventions. In (pp. 300-317). doi:10.1017/9781108677318.021
• Rothman, A., Klein, W., & Sheeran, P. (2020). Moving from Theoretical Principles to Intervention Strategies: Applying the Experimental Medicine Approach. In (pp. 285-299). doi:10.1017/9781108677318.020
• Matthews, L., & Simpson, S. (2020). Evaluation of Behavior Change Interventions. In (pp. 318-332). doi:10.1017/9781108677318.022
• Yardley, L., Morrison, L., Muller, I., & Bradbury, K. (2020). Maximizing User Engagement with Behavior Change Interventions. In (pp. 361-371). doi:10.1017/9781108677318.025 |
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